Author: Karren Pell
Publisher: River City Publishing
ISBN: 9781579660451
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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From Bon Secour near Mobile Bay to Sloss Furnace in Birmingham, Alabama Troubadour celebrates Alabama through a collection of songs, essays, and photographs presenting eleven unique sites as they exist at the beginning of the millennium. Veteran musician Karren Pell, a modern-day troubadour, takes the reader along as she travels the state, writing songs about the towns and cities she visits. Her lyrics combine the history, legend, and ambiance of each site. Her essays reveal the cultural significance of these diverse places, beginning with their earliest history and chronicling their development through the twenty-first century. The trip begins in Enterprise at the Boll Weevil Monument, where Pell explains the Southern economic revolution that inspired a civic monument to what would otherwise be considered a pest. We travel north to Tuscaloosa to attend a catfish fry at Betty and Jim Barnes's Catfish Cabin and savor the ribs at Dreamland Barbecue. Pell's song and essay illustrate the importance of the communion of good food and folks, and the common reverence for catfish and barbecue, at the altar of the Southern table. After visiting the Ave Maria Grotto, the Cross Garden, and other unusual sites, we come to the end of our journey near Cherokee at the Key Underwood Coon Dog Cemetery. The lyrics to "A Good Coon Dog" express the love between the hunter and the hunting dog. The accompanying essay, "The Coon Dog Cemetery," explores the history and experience of hunting in Southern culture, as well as the importance of the Coon Dog Cemetery in that history. The black and white photographs provide visual interpretation and clearly, yet artistically, document the sites at the beginning of anew millennium. During a time of change, Alabama Troubadour offers a personal rendering of the continuity of life for the uncommon people and places in Alabama.
Author: Rick Carter
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781667812830
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Rick Carter has been writing songs and playing music professionally for over fifty years. His first book, Fables and Stories - Tales From an Alabama Troubadour, is a compilation of short stories, prose, observations on life, song lyrics, and one-liners. As he always says of his songwriting, the songs come from both sides of the brain...some are silly and some will tug at your heartstrings. Fables and Stories is a window into, both, the humor and the heart of the author.
Author: Karren Pell
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Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Category : African American entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Author: Andy Duncan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461747287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Discover Alabama's curious underside with this oddly entertaining little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and hilarious can visit the Coon Dog Cemetery, learn about the cattle-mutilation mystery, view the world's largest boll weevil, and sip Kudzu Tea. Only a true Southerner could capture the essence of these and other authentic Alabama phenomena, and Andy Duncan does his home state proud.
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Author: James J. Wilhelm
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429603096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Originally published in 1990, this book contains the full text and translation of razos and troubadour songs. The coupling of the razos and songs in this edition is based on the conviction that though the lyrics should first be read on their own, it is highly instructive to read the two together, as the razo authors intended. This allows the reader to attempt to read as a thirteenth-century contemporary might have.
Author: New Haven Free Public Library
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Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Author: F. R. P. Akehurst
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520913000
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 515
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This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and composers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the South of France. No study of medieval literature is complete without an examination of the courtly love which is celebrated in the elaborately rhymed stanzas of troubadour verse, creations whose words and melodies were imitated by poets and musicians all over medieval Europe. The words of about 2,500 troubadour songs have survived, along with 250 melodies, and all have come under intense scholarly scrutiny. This Handbook brings together the fruits of this scrutiny, giving teachers and students an overview of the fundamental issues in troubadour scholarship. All quotations are given in the original Old Occitan and in English. The editors provide a list of troubadour editions and an index, and each chapter includes a list of additional readings. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning
